IF THE GOVERNMENT SHUTS DOWN, BLAME THE DEMOCRATS

We were feeling pretty apathetic these last few days. In fact we were thinking of stopping production of this E-rag. But nothing inspires us better than to hear the torrent of lies that has been poutring forth from the mouths of Obama and his handlers regarding the impending "shut down" of the Federal government.

 

 

We grew up in the Dayton, Ohio area, and although we have had a few rough spots here in the DC area, it is nothing compared to the suffering being endured in our beloved home town. We are more than a bit amused at the angst being expressed in the National Capital region at the prospect of the Federal government being stripped down to "just the essentials". In fact, that ought to be permanent.

 

 

Be that as it may, I will gladly endure the suffering that will descend on the DC area as a result of a Federal shut-down. It's about time that the weenies who live here get a taste of what it's like (and has been like for a LONG GODDAMN TIME) In Ohio.

 

 

Now, the Democrat Party has been trumpeting this impending shut-down as a national emergency and they have been trying to lay it at the feet of the Republican Party. But the current goings-on are the result of the efforts of conservatives attempting to work the will of the People, who can see that Obamacare will ruin EVERYTHING. The situation we are in right now is NOT the result of Republicans "holding the economy hostage for political ends". It is the result of Obama and his henchmen using every filthy trick possible to make sure that this Statist Trojan horse masquerading as "health care law" gets completely inside the gates of the city. That will enable their dream of mandating every aspect of every American citizen's life.

 

And that is why the Federal government will probably shut down - except for "essential services" - tomorrow. Here in the DC area, we will suffer, no doubt about it. But as to my beloved Dayton and the rest of the nation, it may well be a welcome respite.

 

No matter the consequences, however, this impending shut down is not the result of Republicans being "sore losers". It is the result of Obama and his coterie of gangsters trying to shove fascism down the throats of a populace who do not want it. However this works out, remember this when you vote. 

UPDATE

We have been having technical difficulties in that the neighborhood WiFi hot spot has fallen victim to the Obama "recovery" and shut down. This is being written at a bar in the west end of Alexandria, and it is really hard to concentrate. Also I cannot smoke here, so I'm not relaxed.

 

Fear not, gentle readers; Your Beloved Editor has not had some ghastly fate befall him. The aforementioned technical difficulties ave however combined with the fact that this Syrian affair is so multifaceted and is developing so damned fast that anything I post will likely turn out to be wrong before the first person reads it.

 

I do have a few opinions.

 

The way Obama has been handling this conjures up an image in my mind of him in a clown suit, with one foot in a bucket of paint and the other stepping on his dick.

 

What we should do about Syria is watch, and remind both sides that whoever wins had better make nice with Washington or else no money, honey.

 

We'll be back online as soon as we can get an internet connection without having to travel clear to the other side of the city. (I am a cheapskate).

LABOR DAY 2013

Here it is, the first Monday in September of yet another year. Tomorrow everyone goes back to work and/or school. Labor Day is meant to be an appreciation of the American working man, and that's pretty much how we're treated. "Yeah, we appreciate youse. Now get the hell back to work and fork up yer taxes".

 

 

(NOTE: We are aware that some folks will find the term "working MAN" to be "sexist".  GFY.)

 

 

This is traditionally "the last day of summer", even though summer still has over half a month to run. But by "summer" we here in the USA traditionally mean a relatively carefree season of rest and relaxation. "Summer" in this sense meant, when I was a lad, that period of time between the Friday after Memorial Day and this day.

 

 

Sadly, today kids wind up staying in classes until the middle of June, and many go back to school in the middle of August; and there are many jurisdictions and individual schools which hold class year-round. The reason cited for this is that kids "forget 40 percent of what they learn" when given 3 months of relative freedom.

This is baloney. What kids call "play" is increasingly as one grows older "creative application" of what was learned during the school year.  For instance, there was a day in July - I believe it was 1968 - when some pals of mine and I had ridden bikes to a swimming hole where we got the shit bitten out of us by the bluegills. We found an old bucket and decided it would be fun to dump water on unsuspecting cars passing under an overpass. But naturally, we couldn't dump the water on the side where the car was approaching, because the driver would see us and be able to avoid being doused.

(Note: we were at least responsible enough to ensure that any car we dumped on was not traveling alongside anyone else, nor had any other vehicles behind or in front for a good, long distance. We called that "being careful".)

After about ten misses, I got exaspirated and decided to work out a "firing solution", using the lessons I had learned in algebra and geometry, based on how long it took a water dump to hit the pavement and how long it took a car sighted from a certain angle to come out from under the far side of the overpass. I actually made calculations on paper.

Basically I figured out that if it took a car x seconds to pass between points A and B, it would come out at the far side of the overpass at y seconds. I discovered that counting the seconds between these points would yield the number of seconds it would take for car and water-dump to encounter each other.

I guess I've always been a little geeky, because I insisted that we go through some dry runs, with the "firing party" doing the final countdown and reporting whether or not the countdown ended with the water hitting the targeted vehicle (although there was no actual dumping).

My freinds got impatient and insited on dousing the next car to come along.  I said okay.

As it turned out, the next car to come along was a Montgomery County, Ohio Sheriff's deputy. As the cruiser passed the second "fire control point" I called out: Mark! four three two one, go!"

Six seconds later, a bucketful of water hit the windshield of the cruiser, and the Deputy careened all over the road.

Naturally, we all leapt on our bikes and split up, and got the hell out of there; using shortcuts through woods whenever possible.

I don't think people ought to worry about what kids might forget over the summer. Summer is the season where kids apply what they've been taught, in a creative manner. (The foregoing is a true story, and I hope I am correct in assuming the statute of limitations has run on that car dousing.)  If teachers and parents are worried about anything, it ought to be that some kids were taught too well.

I say, from the first week in June to the Tuesday after the first Monday in September, let the kids play. Let them explore and find things about which to be curious.

The kid who wants to go to Mars will need to know all kinds of math. Use his dreams to pique his curiosity, and if he discovers other interests along the way, then show him that education is the means to his ends.

Let some kid  who wants to be a rock star play in garage bands all summer long. When he gets back to school, explain to him that music is math. And it is.

Grant today's kids what I and my fellows had: nearly three full months of unfettered, unsupervised (well, mostly. I don't mean with LSD or some such, parents still have to do their duty) experimentation and discovery.

Well, that's my polemic for the day. Now if you will excuse me, the coalss are hot and I have a 3 inch thick Porterhouse to grill along with two ears of corn.

Happy Labor Day.



THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY COMMEMORATION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING'S MARCH ON WASHINGTON

Gentle readers, we know you have been waiting for our comments on the recent week of commemorations of Dr. Martin Luther King's legendary "March on Washington" and his "Dream" speech. As most of you three know, not only are we on a semi-break, but also we take time to digest what is going on, the better to know what we are talking about. Also in this case we barely knew where to start.

 

 

What ought to have been a national memorial carrying a message of unity was instead turned into a Leftist Democrat partisan circle-jerk.  It was absolutely disgraceful. And the black folks in attendance seemed to be completely oblivious to the fact that they were being used by the Democrat party to pursue and promote a partisan agenda.

 

 

Some of the tactics were sublime. Providing only one entrance for the general public enabled the State-controlled media to show what looked like hordes of people waiting to get in, when actually there were - according to our estimates, and we're pretty good at judging these things - less than 30,000 people watching what was being presented from the stage.  The fact that there were NO "Jumbotrons" indicates to us that the organizers knew that not that many people would show up. And in aerial views, the crowd starts to thin halfway down the Reflecting Pool and peters out to nothing at the east end of the pool.

 

A particularly galling tactic was the inviting of several white Republicans to speak at the event. None accepted, wisely knowing that there were most likely trained hecklers in the crowd. And one Republican who was NOT invited was the South Carolina senator who replaced Strom Thurmond. He, however, is black and might have swayed the crowd away from the Democrat point of view. And of course the white Republicans' failure to attend was used to depict them as racists.

 

And it was absolutely obscene that the "Reverend" Al Sharpton, who participated in the frame-up of a U.S. Attorney on rape charges in the infamous Tawanna Brawley affair; and who makes his living stirring up hatred between blacks and whites, was invited to stand where Dr. King stood and to deliver a racist screed, which he ended by reminding everyone that "Rosa Parks wasn't no ho". 

 

The white Governor of the State of Maryland stood at the dais and delivered a pandering speech full of the usual Democrat crap. And when Current Resident of the White House Barack Hussein Obama delivered his speech on the anniversary of the day King made his "dream" speech, it was a self serving screed in which he said I, I, I, I to the point where it sounded like a rap version of "Ceilito Lindo".

 

Martin Luther King would have been appalled at how blacks were depicted as being too stupid and/or lazy to obtain a photo ID in order to vote. This was of course not said in so many words, but it was implied, along with an implied dare to anyone to call this tactic out for being what it is (and we just did).

 

Of course the anti-Second Amendment agenda got its innings, too; with the corpse of Trayvon Martin being (figuratively) dragged out and compared to Emmit Till.

 

Leave it to Bill Clinton to come up with a quip that neatly tied the themes of the event up in a nice little bow. He said:

 

"A great democracy does not make it harder to vote than it is to get an assault weapon". 

 

(First, America is NOT a "democracy" it is a "representative republic". Second, the definition of "assault weapon" is a rifle or carbine firing an underpowered cartridge and capable of select (full auto or "burst") fire. These can only be obtained with a full background check and the obtaining of a special tax stamp. And third, if by "assault weapon" Clinton - as do most Democrats who use the term - means "firearm"; then even in states which allow "private sales" (between relatives or friends, or the tranfer of firearms as part of an estate); one still has to fork out hundreds or thousands of hard-earned dollars. To vote, one only need obtain a photo ID. So, no, it is NOT easier to get a gun than it is to vote.)

 

 

Here at the Alexandria Daily Poop, we are aware that there are many who will accuse us of "ignoring the many positive messages given at the event" or some such thing. But that is rather like telling a drowning man that he shouldn't bitch because he's in no danger of dying of thirst.

 

This event was to the memory of Dr. King what Miley Cyrus's little presentation on MTV was to the dignity of American womanhood. Which is to say, an obscene slap in the face.

 

If you are offended, tough. Here at the Alexandria Daily Poop we call it like we see it, and we tell it like it is. 

SLYLOCK FOX: NOT ONLY A SEDITIONIST TOOL, BUT A LOUSY DETECTIVE INTO THE BARGAIN

In a recent post we pointed out that the guy who draws the kiddie mystery cartoon "Slylock Fox" had done a propaganda piece designed to convince the kiddies that scientists who are skeptical of "man-made climate change" were evil, like his character "Count Weirdly". 

 

Today Skylock's creator really screwed the pooch. In the panel, "Bruno Bear" is hooked up to a lie detector. The story explains that Bruno knows the identity of a vandal.

 

The caption goes on to explain that Bruno Bear made two statements: (1) "I have no brothers or sisters" and (2) "The father of the vandal is my father's son". 

 

Based on these statements, Slylock advises the police to arrest Bruno Bear. 

 

False arrest city. If Bruno had no siblings, and the father of the vandal was Bruno's father's son; then that would mean that the vandal was BRUNO BEAR'S KID, NOT BRUNO BEAR!!!

 

Somebody write the dimbulb who publishes Slylock and tell him he fucked up, and that you read  about it in the Alexandria Daily Poop.

WIKIPEDIA CARRIES ARTICLE ON BRADLEY MANNING UNDER "CHELSEA MANNING"

Actually I'm not all that surprised by this idiotic move. Wikipedia is absolutely infested with leftists and rainbow-and-unicorn shitheads. But I had been hoping that they would at least be factual enough to acknowledge that Manning is still a human male - I'm rather loathe to consider this punk a man - and has only "requested" in a letter to the "Today" show that he be referred to as "Chelsea" and alluded to with female pronouns. This is not sufficient reason to do so in an objective article about Private Worst Class Manning.

 

This referring to persons - especially children - who have only expressed in some fashion a desire to be thought of as someone as the opposite sex according to their (alleged) personal perception of themselves is just as spurious as referring to Fredo Corleone as "Doctor Corleone" because he's smart (not like everybody says, like dumb) and he wants respect.

 

Especially after this loopy dumbass Manning betrayed our country, I really don't give a FUCK what he wants to be called, or what he wants, PERIOD. Wikipedia (and the Washington Post and the New York Times) calling Manning a female when he has not even legally changed his name is absolutely absurd, and an abdication of responsible objective reporting. It is also an abdication and abandonment of any credentials of news journalism any of these entities may have held and a full-scale leap into the waters of advocacy and propaganda.

 

I tried to post these objections at the "village pump" section of Wikipedia, but the village idiots were hanging around the water cooler posting snarky remarks directed at anyone who took the side I am taking here. (And a new insult has been invented by these idiots. If you don't agree with them on this issue, you are - according to them - "transphobic", whatever the fuck that means.) 

 

The reason these jerks do this is to drown out the remarks of the folks who hold with the opposing view in a sea of type. Well, that doesn't happen on this blog. Stupid, snarky lefties who post stupid, snarky comments have those comments dispatched into the ozone before they even see the light of day. 

 

In terms of being a research tool, I have always thought of Wikipedia as being not a treasure map but rather a metal detector. You have to do some digging to make sure what you have is gold and not an old sardine tin or a rusty nail. Case in point, this is.

CHOKE ON IT, PRIVATE MANNING

Bradley Manning, the treasonous American soldier so adored by the Left, was sentenced yesterday to 35 years in the United States Disciplinary Barracks in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He will forfiet all pay, allowances and benefits and recieve a dishonorable discharge.

 

 

Quite personally I think he should have been sentenced to hang, but I will take what I can get. The dishonorable discharge is most appropriate. My discharge is Honorable, and it is a nice-looking document declaring my service to have been "Honest and Faithful". A dishonorable discharge is a piece of drab-pink, onion-skin paper less than the size of a postcard. It looks just as worthless as Manning is.

 

But here's a corker: Manning is demanding sex-change therapy while he is incarcerated at Fort Leavenworth.

 

Hey, Brad. Don't worry, there's a whole bunch of guys in Leavenworth who are probably fighting over who gets to be the first one to "make you a girl".  I'm quite sure they'll all call you "Chelsea" as you're riding the baloney pony. Hells bells, you twit. Why didn't you ask the judge for the full 90 years?

 

You fucking traitor.